About

Littlewort was born in Cape Town, and lives and works in the City Bowl.

She relentlessly explores the myriad ways of making marks with oil-paint, working on different surfaces that create unexpected, surreal effects.

Her sense of the absurd is informed by ideas famously explored by Dadaism: the inherent ridiculousness of capitalist ideology and its effects of global devastation, mass poverty and perpetual war. Her recent solo shows addressed themes of colonial exploitation ("We Live in the Past") and climate change ("The Great Grief").

Since then she has been re-looking at the human body, particularly nudes and portraiture, as a timeless source of inspiration for painting.